Licht Jekylland Todoroki

Licht Jekylland Todoroki, also refered to as Licht Todoroki, is a famous pianist from Austria who thinks he's an angel. He is the Eve of "Lawless", the Servamp of Greed.

Appearance
He is a slightly tall boy with black hair that has a small strand of white hair on the left side of his head. His eyes are grey (blue in the anime), and he's normally seen with an annoyed expression.

Personality
Although Licht is already 18 years old, he often behaves like a naive child. He thinks himself of an angel and means it; he seems to be far off reality and is often described as a denpa. Since he considers himself as an angel, he is very violent towards vampires that he refers as demons in general, having no hesitation to attack them. When it comes to it, he even has a very short temper and usually attack first without thinking.

Behind his violent words and actions, he has soft spot for small animals and always referring them with suffix "-san", which is the reason he initially picked up Lawless in his hedgehog form. In fact, one of his childhood dreams is to have an ability to speak with animals.

Although he is still a child at heart, there are times he can be sharp and aware, particularly regarding Lawless. He believes that if people want something and working towards it they can be unique. Licht preserves with his aspiration and has the strong constitution to follow through with his goals.

Background
Licht was raised by his parents in Austria, Vienna (German:Wien). His mother is a international celebrated pianist from Austria and his father a star violinist who originally came from Japan but was raised in France. Since his early childhood Licht loved to play the piano and was very good at it. According to Licht, he continues to play piano because he promised a friend. Once, when his parents for the first time came to watch his piano concert, he was happy but also nervous at the same time. He was so nervous that his hair became white and his moves became rigid while walking towards the piano. Fortunately, his hard work was paid off as he played skilfully, leading to the concert's success. Afterwards, although his hair became black again, one part of his hair remains white. Years later, on a tour, Licht found a hedgehog who took interest in him on his way back and initially loved it. He named him "Hyde" and but did not understand the circumstances that he put himself in. He left his room for the concert and when he came back, he found a young man standing in his room who turned out to be the hedgehog he originally picked up, the Servamp of Greed by the name of Lawless. By accident, Licht formed a contract with him and from this time on, the two of them always fought with each other. Licht believes that he has to kill and purify the demons but Lawless pokes fun at him since he fully believes that he is an angel.

First meeting
Licht comes to Japan because a relative of Licht's wanted to organize a concert in Tokyo. So he, alongside Lawless and his manager Rosen Kranz, travel to Tokyo. Licht does not know that the so called "relative" is an impostor and actually Tsubaki. The evening before the concert, Licht is in town after having a karaoke and is then followed by Mahiru Shirota and Kuro. However, Licht eventually realizes this and confronts the two, questioning whether they are angel or demon. Using his Lead, he finds out that Kuro is a vampire and attacks him. Mahiru puts a stop to his attack, demanding Licht to free Lawless who was inside a cage. The two about to clash again until Lawless frees himself from the cage and tells the three of them that he tricked Kuro, Mahiru, and also his Eve Licht because it would be funny if Licht and Kuro fought. Licht gets mad and kicks Lawless for this; he also tells Mahiru that he doesn't like his Servamp and is searching for a way to kill him, questioning the Sloth Eve. When Mahiru reveals that Servamp will lose their power if their contract item is destroyed, Licht contemplated on killing Lawless that way before he leaves, not slightest bit interested in working together with the other Eves and Servamps.

Showdown in the Opera
While Licht performs at his concert in Tokyo's Opera City Hall, his Servamp, Lawless, is attacked by Tsubaki's Subclass. All of the audience are revealed to be Tsubaki's Subclass and about 2,000 of them were slaughtered by Lawless. Lawless succeeds in destroying nearly all of them and even has fun doing it. The only one who survived were Belkia and Lila who managed to escape. Licht did not really recognize what happened while he was playing and shouts at Lawless telling him that he was too noisy while he was trying to play the piano. After the concert, Licht goes to sing karaoke all night long. When he wants to return to the hotel, he realizes, that his legs are so heavy, he nearly can't walk anymore and phones Kranz, asking him where Lawless is, assuming that they were too far apart. The suddenly weakened Licht is attacked by Higan - the strongest fighter of Tsubaki's Subclass. Although Licht can fight him pretty well, he is still hurt badly due to his weaken condition. Mahiru and Kuro come to his aid. But just when Kuro is about to attack, he melts into a mysterious ball. Licht creates a large piano and plays it in walking over it and with it's music he tries to encourage Mahiru to fight in telling him: the question is not IF he wants to become someone but WHO he wants to become. But he fails and is beaten by Higan who kidnaps him.

Kidnapped
Tsubaki keeps Licht and Lawless in his HQ imprisoned. The two of them are in seperated rooms, but can hear each other. First they think they only hear each others voices in their heads but realize that they really are not that far from each other. They start to argue - they talk about what happens if Licht dies here, but for Licht, dying is out of question. As the argument escalates, Licht somehow frees himself and destroyes the wall between them.

For the first time, it seems they work together when they try to fight Tsubaki and just in that moment, Tsubaki manages to defeat Lawless. Soon afterwards C3 appears and scares away Tsubaki. The fight is over and Licht alongside his Servamp goes to Mahirus home. There he is lured away by C3 who promise him to have a lot of melons at the HQ. Lawless tries to make clear that this has to be a trap, but Licht does not listen.

C3
After Tsurugi Kamiya went on a rampage in the C3 headquarter, Licht and Lawless found Mahiru and Kuro who were no longer able to fight and promised that they will stop him. They later met Wrath on the way who picked them both up and ran after Tsurugi.

Trivia

 * His favorite color is silver
 * He likes cream soda, melon, and kakigori (Japanese crushed ice) and cotton candy.
 * According to Lawless he described eating kakigori as “like taking me to the clouds of heaven and over the melting rainbow,” while he described eating cotton candy as “like sprinkling the clouds of heaven with stars at the base of the night sky.”
 * His hobbies are the piano, karaoke and climbing trees.
 * He does not like jetlag and "rotten hedgehog".
 * His name "Licht" is the German word for "Light".
 * He is bad at volleyball since he can't control his power: in the summer vacation drama CD he went to hit Lawless with the ball but instead hit Misono.
 * His favorite street in Japan is Harajuku.
 * He named his Servamp Hyde - which is a pun due to the fact that his first surname is "Jekylland" so taking this name and Hyde you get "Jekyll-and Hyde" what refers to the book "Jekyll and Hyde" -> Dr. Jekyll has a second personality which kills people in town.)
 * In one of the drama CDs it was revealed that he can't handle even the tiniest amount of alcohol and managed to get drunk from eating chocolate that had some liquer in it.
 * He is sometimes referred to as being a denpa; a japanese term for someone who is disconnected from reality. This is due to his frequent claims of being an angel.
 * Lawless has stated that his amusement at this fact is one of the reasons he's kept him around as his master for so long.
 * In the English version of the manga he is mistakenly referred to as being 'Australian' rather than 'Austrian'.
 * In Drama CD, he takes quick liking at Kuro in his cat form, and this continues even after knowing that he is a vampire.
 * In the first popularity poll he tied for seventh with Tetsu with 1535 votes each, despite only being introduced five chapters prior.

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